A MEAN TRICK.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 3, 7 June 1900, Page 3

A MEAN TRICK.

Two Melbourne youths, who had " an edge " on their boarding-house, recently paid off old scoreb upon leaving, They occupied the fiont bilcony • toora, and when the landlady made inspection after they left, she found everything apparently in order. While fcho was in the kitchen not long after, however, she heard a strange noise i i the street, and then a laige piece of rocK came crashing through the hall fanlight. N«xt minute her husband burst into th? hall, pursued by several infuriated persons, who commenced to smash up every article within .reach, while outside a mob brandished their fists and threatened to pull down the house. The explanation was that before leaving the lace lodgers had hung along the balony a calico sign—

" Looal office of the pro-Boer fund. Subscriptions received in aid of the poor Boers." Beneath this there wore labelled " Oom Paul " and " Chamberlain " respectively, the former dashing a huge fist in Chamberlain's eye. The whole concern was promptly pitched into the street, and tho dowd compromised by dancing the stuffing out of the Kvuger effigy.